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“When Fayetteville-based photographer Connor Cockrell was growing up in Northwest Arkansas, the mountain-biking community was still in its infancy. But by 2016, the handful of “secret trails” he’d started riding as a college freshman had grown into the network of 300-plus miles of singletrack known as the OZ Trails.”

Daily, we drool over their Instagram feeds, wondering how these Arkansas photographers’ nature shots capture The Natural State so perfectly, so vibrantly, and ours … don’t. So we wanted to know: What does it take to get the shot?

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